Firsts
Our efforts to eradicate polio will be the second time in history that a disease affecting humans has been eradicated. This other disease was eradicated in 1980.
What is smallpox?
Today, there are only two countries that have never stopped transmission of the wild poliovirus.
What are Afghanistan and Pakistan?
This president of the United States had been stricken with polio.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The ratio that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation matches money raised by Rotary to fight polio.
What is 2 to 1?
How volunteer vaccine administrators keep track of which children have been vaccinated during a campaign.
What is a purple pinkie?
What nations must do to be certified as "polio free".
What is going three years with no new cases of polio?
This is the first country where Rotary eradicated polio.
What is the Philippines?
The year polio was eradicated in Europe.
What is 2002?
The Virus Hunter - deploys health experts to investigate outbreaks, identify strains and pinpoint geographic origin.
Who is the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)?
This was the machine that helped children with polio breath.
What is the iron lung?
This carving portraying Roma the Doorkeeper from 1500 BCE suggests he had paralytic polio is from this country.
What is Egypt?
This is the number of new wild polio cases in 2023. [Within 5]
What is 12
7 cases in Pakistan and 5 in Afghanistan.
The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis was founded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938, as the, to combat polio is now known by this name.
What is the March of Dimes?
The Strategist - this group coordinates the management and administration of the Global Polio Eradication and provides technical and operational support
Who is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
Reason babies under 6 months don't contract polio.
What is mother's immunity?
Developers of the polio vaccine who rather than patent their work donated their rights as a gift to humanity.
Who were Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin?
The number of countries where polio was endemic in the year 1988 when Rotary committed to its worldwide eradication. (Bonus if you can also enumerate the number of cases)
What is 125 countries and 350,000 cases?
United States has been polio free since this year.
What is 1979?
The Immunizer: buys the vaccines and manages distribution, field workers immunize children with help of local health workers and volunteers
Who is UNICEF?
Coincidentally, Jonas Salk and Bill Gates have something more than a passion to fight polio in common - What is this?
The Initial symptoms of polio.
What are fever, fatigue, headache, vomiting, stiffness in the neck, and pain in the limbs.
In a small proportion of cases, the disease causes paralysis, which is often permanent.
In 2023 - 39 Outbreak countries have stopped wild polio but are experiencing re-infection through either importation or vaccine-derived poliovirus. Which four countries are seeing the highest number of vaccine-derived poliovirus? (Name at least 2 correctly)
In this year, India surpasses 1 year without a recorded case of polio and is removed from the list of countries where polio is endemic.
What is 2012?
The last case of polio due to WPV in India was detected on 13 January 2011 in Howrah district of West Bengal.
The Advocate: Uses members business acumen and passion to build awareness, fund raise, and encourage donations.
Who is Rotary?
What is poliomyelitis?